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Not many persons would relish a career in which the threat of death is constant.But Edward Orin Collins is one of the many special men and women who never flinched at the idea of putting their lives on the line in defence of their country.Add the burden of frequently being away from their families for extended periods not knowing if you will see them again and you will see why these men and women are special.We’re talking here about career soldiers, a vocation many of us will frown upon. And Edward Collins can be considered one of Guyana’s most patriotic soldiers.His career spanned decades during which Guyana faced many threats, both externally and internally.There were border skirmishes to the domestic situations, in which all his training and experience were brought to bear.From a Cadet Officer in the early 1970s, he rose to become the head of the Guyana Defence Force and retired as Brigadier General in 2007.Edward Orin Collins was born on September 26, 1952, at No. 40 Village, West Coast Berbice. The sixth child and second son of a policeman, Edwin Collins,Cheap NFL Jerseys China, and Marjorie Collins, a housewife. He lived his early years in several Police Divisions along the Coast. Most of this time however, was spent in Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo, when his father was stationed at Leonora and Parika Police Stations.His first encounter with the military was in the 1960s when he encountered the British soldiers here in Guyana, followed by the Volunteer Corps.But although he had seen the military in two forms, first the white soldiers and then persons like himself (Volunteer Corps) he still was not attracted to the military then.A career in the army was not on Collins’s mind in his formative years,Cheap Jerseys, in fact, this confirmed Anglican appeared destined for a career in medicine, although his mother wanted him to become a priest.But economic constraints put paid to those early lofty dreams and Collins soon found himself among the ranks of the employed.His first job was teaching at the St. Jules Anglican School at Blankenburg, West Coast Demerara.He even enlisted in the Teachers’ Training College and at that time it seemed that Collins would have joined the list of distinguished teachers that were a feature at that time of Guyana’s history.But that career was short lived, for it was while at college that the idea of joining the Guyana Defence Force first surfaced for the aspiring teacher.But it was not just the desire to be in uniform that really inspired the young Collins, as he explained it was the higher remuneration that was being offered by the army that struck a chord in his mind.Collins swears before Commander in Chief, President Bharat Jagdeo after being appointed Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force.“I was with some friends and Arlington Success talked about his brief period as a cadet and he indicated that at least you will get more money. What attracted me was, it was fifty dollars from teachers’ training college when compared with $380 being offered by the army. I said let me go for the Guyana Defence Force.”After going through the interview process, conducted by Colonel Ulric Pilgrim and the then Lt Col. Joseph Singh, he joined the Guyana Defence Force at the age of 21, as an Officer Cadet in 1973, and was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on July 24, 1974.But although the training was intense, Collins who considers himself a fitness fanatic came through with flying colours and by then he had grown to love the career he had chosen.“I was being exposed to training to become an officer. Imagine in those days a young 21-year-old giving orders… made quite a lot of sense to me,” he said with a slight chuckle.Then came one of the major turning points in his military career. Collins was one of three members of the GDF to be selected for a special course in China.During that stint in China, he was fortunate to witness the visit of US president Richard Nixon to the socialist country.“We were visiting the Great Wall (of China) together, myself, Colonel Harmon and Andy Worrell. And just being there and being exposed to a man of the stature of Nixon, and living what the Chinese called equality, was overwhelming,”Coming from a small third world country like Guyana and being treated like royalty in China was something that would remain in the memory of the young army Lieutenant.“China lived socialism and we came back home loving socialism because the treatment we received was first class. Everywhere we went, whatever we wanted to do, they treated us well,” Collins said.The China course was organised by the then Prime Minister of Guyana Forbes Burnham and his Chinese counterpart.According to Collins,College Jerseys, they were not aware what they were going to do in China and it was not until they were actually there that they real


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Recent revelations issued by the Organisation of American States (OAS) Electoral Observer Mission to theAFC Chairman, Khemraj RamjattanGuyana General and Regional Elections has led to the Alliance for Change (AFC) calling for a reform of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).The OAS in a recent report revealed a number of concerns that have not been limited to the fact that envelopes containing Statements of Poll were delivered by an unaccredited and unescorted individual,Air Max 97 Buy Online, and according to Chairman of the AFC, Khemraj Ramjattan, the party is confident that it will be able to get the full support of the House to address electoral reform in light of the OAS report.? He amplified the need “to have some confidence in the system, otherwise, we are perennially going to be in trouble simply because we are suspicious of the system.”This,Cheap Authentic Jerseys, he said,NCAA Hockey Jerseys, is probably one of the biggest problems with Guyana and once there is suspicion, even without foundation, “there will be huge problems…there will be trouble in the sense that there might be problems due to uneducated officials, who simply did not realise they had to do certain procedures. It happens in every democracy but we feel that all of those happenings there must be attempts to correct them and reform what the OAS in its set of recommendations is stating in that, there are things to reform…”In highlighting the OAS recommendation that there is need for reformation and adherence, Ramjattan, speaking at his party’s weekly press briefing on Wednesday, disclosed that “the AFC has made this point at the level of the tripartite talks with the Government and A Partnership for National Unity (APNU). The AFC fully endorses the recommendations of the OAS Observation Mission, and to this end, the Party will bring to the National Assembly a Motion calling for the Reform of GECOM.”? APNU,Wholesale Jerseys, according to Ramjattan, has indicated that it will support such a motion.Based on the revelations of the OAS, there has been no evidence to support rigging of the 2011 General Elections on the part of the opposition. However, there are some issues of concern among them, the fact that in the tabulation and processing of the polls, several incidents were observed, which demonstrated the lack of application of uniformed procedures.A verbal report issued by the OAS outlines that OAS teams stationed at the tabulation center in Georgetown observed at least two envelopes containing Statements of Poll being delivered by an unaccredited and unescorted individual. In addition, it was noted that on at least two occasions, Statements of Poll bypassed the system,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, whereby the Commissioners examined them and they were instead delivered directly to the manual tabulation process.Further, the OAS revealed that one day after the November 28, 2011 elections, for about half an hour, the reception procedure was reversed by the GECOM Chairman to institute the direct delivery of Statements of Poll to the manual tabulation process, prior to their verification by Commissioners. Prior to the declaration of results, the IT Department was unable to finish processing all of the Statements of Poll, and 307 were not in the digital tabulation center’s system half an hour before the originally scheduled declaration of results. “While the declaration of results is legally based on the information provided to the Chief Electoral Officer by the Returning Officers, corroborating the manual tally with that of the Information Technology Department prior to the declaration of results could have helped lend credibility to the process,” the OAS noted.These observations of the OAS Mission, according to Chairman of the Alliance for Change (AFC), Khemraj Ramjattan,J.R. Smith Jersey, are a clear indication that GECOM must undergo reform if the people of Guyana are to have any confidence in the system. The Report clearly points to the need to reform GECOM prior to the holding of Local Government Elections and it must therefore be treated with top-most priority. “The AFC has made this point at the level of the tripartite talks with the government and APNU, (and) the AFC fully endorses the recommendations of the OAS Observation Mission. To this end, the Party will bring to the National Assembly a Motion calling for the reform of GECOM. In light of the OAS Report, the AFC anticipates that it will get the full support of the House.”